Tom Ruegger (born April 4th, 1956, in Metuchen, New Jersey) is an American animation writer, producer, and director. He was once an executive producer/creative director for Warner Brothers Animation. In the 1980s he worked for Hanna-Barbera, writing and producing various shows--most notably Yogi's Treasure Hunt, The Snorks on NBC, the short lived The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo on ABC all in 1985, Pound Puppies, the whole Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo series and the runaway hit A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. But he is most famous as a producer, writer, show-runner and cartoon-creator for Warner Brothers Animation from 1989-2001, working alongside Jean MacCurdy and Steven Spielberg, where his creations included Tiny Toon Adventures (along with Sherri Stoner and Paul Dini), Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Histeria!, Batman: The Animated Series, Freakazoid! (for which he brought in Paul Rugg and John P. McCann as writers/producers), and Road Rovers.

Ruegger has received fourteen Emmy Awards for his work in animation.

In 2004, Ruegger started Tom Ruegger Production, a full-service animation studio. In 2006, Ruegger began developing, story-editing and serving as Executive Producer on the 40-episode animated series Animalia (2007), based on the picture book by Graeme Base. Along with Nicholas Hollander, he developed and story-edited another animated series entitled Sushi Pack (2007).